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Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 1, 2023
Image: Locksley Knibbs, lead academic adviser for students studying the natural sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, knows that advisers take on different roles to serve the whole student: mentor, advocate, mediator, coach. “We advise you based on the curriculum or the degree that you have declared on your record.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 1, 2023
million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. The last two years, ASU has seen the highest retention rates of all students, but particularly Latino students.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 10, 2023
This doesn’t mean students don’t benefit from advising, however. To the contrary—existing research positively links increased engagement with advisers to student success metrics such as retention. The Student Voice data also suggest that students benefit from more face time with advisers.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 6, 2023
Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting. Is this diversity newsletter?:
Parchment
MARCH 24, 2023
Often faculty members are evaluating courses, academic advisers are guiding students and administrators are making the higher-level policy decisions. ” While that’s “good news,” she added that technology can only do so much when institution-level transfer policies remain convoluted and decentralized.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.
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